Einfach machen! She-Punks von 1977 bis heute

Punk is a promise - of rebellion and self-empowerment! When it conquered the whole world from England and the USA at the end of the 1970s, it suddenly needed neither training nor perfection to express itself musically in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ‘Don't talk, do it!’ is the motto. What counts is the idea and the courage to take to the stage. And this is especially true for the women in the scene: Östro 430 formed in Düsseldorf, Mania D, later Malaria!, in West Berlin and Kleenex, later LiLiput, in Zurich. Their role models came from England and were called X-Ray Spex, The Slits, The Raincoats or Siouxsie Sioux. They wrote songs about female role clichés and philistinism, about machos and dogmatic feminists. It's about female desire and sexual self-determination. And always about conquering free spaces - within the male-dominated punk scene, but also in society as a whole.